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From: Alex Herbert <aherbert@ndirect.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: GpuPacketArea query.
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 00:47:17 +0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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To: James Chow <james@chowfam.demon.co.uk>



James Chow wrote:

> Can anyone tell me why declaring (and using)
>
> PACKET GpuPktArea[2][x], where x = 2^n-1
>
> does not work?   (u^v = pow(u,v))
>                  (n is any number)
>
> I understand that if x is too small then the
> GPU will not have enough space to carry out
> its tasks. That means if we set it to be a
> large value, then everything should be OK.
> However, this does not seem to be the case.
>
> With x = 32767, it locked up just trying to
> draw a line.
>
> Anyone?
> --
> jc

You say:    x = 2^n-1.
Shouldn't that be:    x = 2^n?

Also, upper limit for n is 14, so the max value for x is 16384.

Hope that sorts it for ya.


Herbs